Forge House is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A C18 House.
Forge House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-stair-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Forge House, Charing Heath Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 927 491
- Coordinates
- 51.2089, 0.75861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forge House is an 18th-century building located on Charing Heath Road in Charing Heath. It is constructed of painted brick and has two storeys. The roof is hipped and covered with tiles, featuring a brick cornice with cogging at the eaves. The house has four casement windows, each fitted with small square leaded panes. The entrance is marked by a doorcase that has a flat hood supported by scroll brackets, leading to a door composed of six moulded panels.
Local climate
Forge House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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